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Age Range: 3-5
Craft Time: 30-60 minutes
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Material List
- Creatology™ Foam Sheet - Navy Blue
- Hole Punch
- Crayola® Markers
- Paper Plate
- Ruler
- Scissors
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- Yarn
- Creatology™ Foam Sheet - Medium Blue
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- Punch four holes equal distances from each other around the paper plate. Attach 8" of yarn from each hole by tying a knot.
- Draw the four stages of the water cycle onto the foam and cut out. Punch hole near the top of each piece and tie to yarn in the order of the water cycle.
- Punch hole at the bottom of each foam piece and attach 6" of yarn.
- Cut the construction paper into strips and write the stages of the water cycle on the strips. Punch a hole in each strip and attach to the appropriate piece of yarn. Add yarn to hang the mobile.
Craft NotesIf you don't want to make a mobile, try a windsock or hat using the water cycle symbols.
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I've worked at many trades in my life, including owner of a graphic design firm and director of a nonprofit arts organization. I am the mother of two, and happily married. Merge Education is the ongoing culmination of all of it, which I am pursuing with my husband Bill Rossi. It's the vehicle for dissemination of his uniquely effective creative teaching approach which empowers students for learning and life.

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|The "Chicago Fire" star says he's living out his childhood dreams.
|Published Thursday, December 6, 2012 12:15 am
NBC�s new high-octane drama series �Chicago Fire� (Wednesday nights 9 p.m.) is drawing rave reviews from some of the media�s toughest critics.
|London-born Eamonn Walker is well known in the United States for his portrayal of Kareem Said, the Muslim leader on the critically acclaimed series �Oz.�
For the firefighters, rescue squad and paramedics of Chicago Firehouse 51, no occupation is more stressful or dangerous, yet so rewarding and exhilarating.
These courageous men and women are among the elite who forge headfirst into danger when everyone else is running the other way and whose actions make the difference between life and death.
If the storylines and physical look of Chicago Fire looks authentic, that�s because it really is. Actual firefighters are used in several background scenes and as used consultants to the show.
Plus, a stellar cast of multi-talented actors give the show even more authenticity.
Eamonn Walker stars as Battalion Chief Wallace Boden, a fireman�s fireman who is confronted by important personal decisions each day.
�I�m so lucky to be playing this role,� said Walker, a London-born actor best-known in the United States for his portrayal of Kareem Said, the Muslim leader on the critically acclaimed series �Oz.�
�The people behind the scenes and the ones in front of the camera, makes it a pleasure to come to work each day,� he said. �The 10-year-old boy inside of me who used to dream about riding in a vehicle 90 miles per hour with the siren ringing is excited to be living that dream.�
Walker said he also enjoys being called �chief� on a daily basis.
�I�ve also fallen in love with what it means to be a fire fighter,� he said.
Many of the show�s key actors had to take a crash course at a fire academy. Walker said during training a camaraderie developed between the actors and actual firefighters.
�One of the first things we were shown is the Wall of the Fallen,� he said. �[It is] a wall to remember the many firefighters who had lost their lives in the line of duty. That really made an impact on me and many others because it helped us fully understand the importance of what being a firefighter is all about. It�s something I will never forget.�
Walker said was inspired to become an actor after watching Sidney Poitier�s portrayal as Virgil Tibbs in the classic film �In The Heat of Night.� He said it changed his life.
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Welcome to Sacred Heart Parish, a Roman Catholic Church in the Diocese of Boston. We are located in the Weymouth/Braintree Landing and serve parishioners in both communities. If you are new to our community we would love to meet you, please fill out the registration below and say hello at any of our five weekend masses.
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In terms of free events centering on art, the Talbot Street Art Fair takes the cake. This year, the fair will take place from June 8th to the 9th. As we mentioned, it is free to get in, although the art is not necessarily free to take home with you. Hours on Saturday the 9th are from 10am to 6pm and 10am to 5pm on Sunday the 10th. The fair takes place in downtown Indianapolis and features 270 amazing artists. No matter what kind of art you favor, there is sure to be something for you at the Talbot Street Art Fair.
Parking can be a bit of a hassle when getting into the fair, however, and this is why we encourage you to look into downtown Indy hotels within walking distance. The fair itself provides tons of free parking, but the availability depends on how many people attend. Our Indianapolis downtown hotel is only about 1½ miles from where the art fair takes place. There is also public transportation within this area so you won't have to worry about finding a parking spot that doesn't charge an arm and a leg.
Unfortunately for artists just now finding out about the fair, they are no longer accepting applications. On the other hand, you have next year to look forward to. The Talbot Street Art Fair prides itself on being a family friendly event. This could be the perfect outing for locals or even a great addition to the itinerary of those vacationing in the surrounding area.


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Sung Hui Kim is Assistant Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law. Her teaching areas include Business Associations, Contracts, Professional Responsibility, Securities Regulation, and The Psychology of Modern Legal Practice.
Professor Kim earned her bachelor's (summa cum laude) and master's degrees in history from Emory University in 1988. Her master's thesis, a history of the supermajority provisions in the U.S. Constitution and a proof of the authorship of Federalist No. 58, was subsequently published by the Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. After graduation, she spent the following year serving as the Program Officer of the Asiatic Research Center, Korea University, supported by the Henry Luce Foundation Scholarship. She then attended Harvard Law School where she graduated cum laude in 1992. She spent the following year in Germany on a fellowship supported by the Robert Bosch Foundation where she worked in the German Foreign Office (Auswärtiges Amt) and Berlin Cabinet of Ministers (Berlin Senatskanzlei).
In 1993, Professor Kim returned to the U.S. to begin her law practice in Washington, D.C. as a transactional lawyer focusing on mergers and acquisitions, private placements and public offerings. In 1995, she relocated her practice to Los Angeles, California, where she began providing legal advice to the North American subsidiary of Austrian-based Red Bull, whose flagship energy drink was being introduced in the United States. In 1999, she joined Red Bull North America as its general counsel. As Red Bull's popularity surged and the company began marketing other products, including the Carpe Diem line of beverages, she supervised all of the company's North American legal matters.
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The Empire State building was lit up in NYC to celebrate China's Total Control Syndrome. We'll call it TCS from here on…The police in America recently showed a display of force to its citizens in Pittsburgh, which hosted the G-20 summit. The article below mentions people miles away from China's big parade being told to "go home, watch it from your television." If you have not yet seen videos from the G-20 summit in Pittsburgh, please do. -ed
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BEIJING (Reuters) – China celebrated its wealth and rising might with a show of goose-stepping troops, gaudy floats and nuclear-capable missiles in Beijing on Thursday, 60 years after Mao Zedong proclaimed its embrace of communism.
Tiananmen Square in central Beijing became a high-tech stage to celebrate the birth of the People's Republic of China on October 1, 1949, with the Communist Party leadership and guests watching a meticulously disciplined show of national confidence.
Celebrations began in the morning with troops firing cannons and raising the red national flag while President Hu Jintao, wearing a slate grey "Mao" suit, looked on from the Gate of Heavenly Peace over the Square.
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Cr Zographos, who has only been at the council table since October, last week criticised Cr Drieberg for politicising the issue of school crossings by "attacking" the state government.
His accusations shocked the mayor, who stood firmly by her comments.
"I don't think it's inaccurate. I don't think it's anything different from how we've advocated on different issues around Monash since I've been the mayor, so I'm surprised," Cr Drieberg said.
The stoush comes after VicRoads told Monash Council that 10 of the city's school crossings may lose funding because fewer children were using them.
SEE: Monash school crossings face cuts
Cr Drieberg argues that all crossings should be funded, regardless of the number of children using them. "The state government should find better ways of cutting its spending rather than zeroing in on a program that helps children stay safe."
But Cr Zographos said the mayor's comments were totally inaccurate.
"I think it's basically without credit that the mayor has said that the government will cut funding for school crossings because the criteria that VicRoads uses is quite clear, and it's been in place for some time," he said.
"The mayor knows that, but she's using the unfortunate situation to, in my opinion, attack the government and the attack is totally unwarranted.
"This is something that I think should be free of any politics."
VicRoads allocates crossing supervisor subsidies based on the number of children and cars at a crossing. Crossings that do not meet the criteria are left unfunded. VicRoads would not confirm which crossings in Monash could close.
Cr Zographos said he had no issue with the VicRoads policy and that if the mayor was serious about securing funding for all crossings in Monash, she should try to negotiate a policy reform with the government.
Cr Drieberg rejected the notion that funding cuts to school crossings should be based on numbers.
"The fact is that the funding going towards school-crossing supervisors is decreasing," she said. "Our stance is it doesn't make a difference how many children are using the crossing, that they need to be adequately supervised for their safety. That's the bottom line for us."


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|Scientific Name:
|Propithecus coquereli
|Species Authority:
|(A. Grandidier, 1867)
Common Name/s:
Propithecus verreauxi (A. Grandidier, 1867) subspecies coquereli
|Taxonomic Notes:
|Formerly considered a subspecies of P. verreauxi (e.g., Groves 1993), but elevated to full species status by Groves (2001) and Mayor et al. (2004).
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Endangered A2cd ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
|Andrainarivo, C., Andriaholinirina, V.N., Feistner, A., Felix, T., Ganzhorn, J., Garbutt, N., Golden, C., Konstant, B., Louis Jr., E., Meyers, D., Mittermeier, R.A., Perieras, A., Princee, F., Rabarivola, J.C., Rakotosamimanana, B., Rasamimanana, H., Ratsimbazafy, J., Raveloarinoro, G., Razafimanantsoa, A., Rumpler, Y., Schwitzer, C., Thalmann, U., Wilmé, L. & Wright, P.
|Mittermeier, R.A. & Rylands, A.B. (Primate Red List Authority)
Listed as Endangered as the species is thought to have undergone a reduction of more than 50% over the past 30 years (assuming a generation length of 10 years) due primarily to a decline in area and quality of habitat within the known range of the species and due to levels of exploitation.
|Range Description:
|This species is found throughout the forested areas of north-western Madagascar to the north and east of the Betsiboka River. Its most southerly occurrence is reportedly Ambato-Boéni, its northern limit is near Bealanana, and its eastern boundary is near Antetemasy (just west of Befandriana Nord). Near sea-level to 300 m.
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|Common in Ankarafantsika, where densities of up to 60 individuals/km² have been estimated (Ganzhorn 1988).
|Population Trend:
|Habitat and Ecology:
|This diurnal vertical clinger and leaper is most commonly found in mixed deciduous and evergreen forests, and often in brush-and-scrub and secondary formations as well; also sighted in coastal mangroves on Baie de Mahajamba. They occasionally descend to the ground. In the forests of Ankarafantsika it is seen in groups of three to 10 with home ranges of 4-9 ha. Births are clustered in the months of June and July. Infants become completely independent by about six months of age and reach adult size by one year (Mittermeier et al. 2008, and references therein).
|Major Threat(s):
|The major threats include habitat loss and hunting pressure. Annual burning to generate new pasture for livestock is the principal cause of forest loss in north-western Madagascar, but trees are also cut to produce charcoal and both practices threaten even officially protected areas. Local traditions place taboos on hunting sifakas, but immigration to this region continues to change such long held practices.
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|This species is listed on Appendix I of CITES. The only two protected areas in which it is known to occur are the Ankarafantsika National Park and the Bora Special Reserve; however, hunting pressure on sifakas is significant in Ankarafantsika (Garcia and Goodman 2003) and Bora has become seriously degraded. Populations of P. coquereli have also been reported from the forests of Anjiamanginana, Anjajavy, the Narinda Peninsula, and Mariarano, which should be considered for protected area status (Mittermeier et al. 2008). This species is represented in a small number of zoos in the United States.
|Andrainarivo, C., Andriaholinirina, V.N., Feistner, A., Felix, T., Ganzhorn, J., Garbutt, N., Golden, C., Konstant, B., Louis Jr., E., Meyers, D., Mittermeier, R.A., Perieras, A., Princee, F., Rabarivola, J.C., Rakotosamimanana, B., Rasamimanana, H., Ratsimbazafy, J., Raveloarinoro, G., Razafimanantsoa, A., Rumpler, Y., Schwitzer, C., Thalmann, U., Wilmé, L. & Wright, P. 2008. Propithecus coquereli. In: IUCN 2013. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 24 April 2014.
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"I love the musical score," said the dance company's founder, artistic director and choreographer Alexander Van Alstyne. "The choreography is really hard but it is a beautiful ballet. I really like the classics."
Van Alstyne, who founded the A.V.A. Ballet in 1994, said that the dance troupe has been working for more than eight weeks to perfect the classic fairy tale with a twist. Van Alstyne re-choreographed the ballet classic to incorporate his contemporary style of ballet and condense the performance from its original four hours to an hour and a half.
"I wanted to make it new and fresh," Van Alstyne said.
Van Alstyne grew up with his parents being heavily involved in the arts. His mother was an opera singer and his father a conductor for Ballet West in Utah, where Van Alstyne finds his primary dancers for his pieces.
For the role of Cinderella, Van Alstyne flew to Utah to find dancer Kate Crews.
"She is a phenomenal technical dancer," Van Alstyne said of Crews. "She is strong and this part is hard to do physically."
Crews, who grew up in Chicago, has been dancing since the age of 4, and professionally since the age of 17. This is Crews' third season performing with the A.V.A. Ballet.
Even though Crews is a full-time professional dancer with Ballet West, she has been working hard in her free time to perfect the role of Cinderella. Crews explained that normally a ballet company will have two to three weeks to put a performance together, and she has been working during her down time for nearly a month for the Reno show.
"A.V.A. is a gift for me," Crews said. "It's really great to have works created for me and work with the director. (Cinderella) is more a contemporary style that Alexander likes to do."
However, Crews admits she doesn't give much thought to the princess she plays on stage, even though little girls may dream of being Cinderella.
"When I'm working on it, it's my passion, my craft and my job," Crews said. "When I step back and look at it, that is when I think about how blessed I am to do this work."
The A.V.A Ballet has not only enlisted top-notch dancers but also top-notch musicians. The Reno Philharmonic has been rehearsing to perfect Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev's musical score.
"The Cinderella ballet is difficult for the orchestra," said Reno Philharmonic conductor Barry Jekowsky. "The score is stunning. The music is lush, beautiful, haunting. It's a real treat just to hear the score, nevertheless watch the ballet."
Jekowsky said that members of the Reno Philharmonic have been practicing individually but came together Tuesday and Wednesday to practice before dress rehearsals with the dancers. He said that practicing for the A.V.A Ballet production is more difficult than a normal philharmonic performance.
"It is very different," Jekowsky said. "The main reason, as the conductor, we strive for an interpretation of the music that is our own. It becomes more collaborative.
"The role of the conductor is to make sure the entire company is comfortable," Jekowsky explained. "The tempos need to be as such that they dance comfortably. I constantly watch the stage to make sure the choreography looks comfortable. If it's correct, the dancers feel that and it looks good."
While Jekowsky may not often have the opportunity to conduct for ballet performances, he has worked with the A.V.A Ballet before.
"I enjoy collaborating with the A.V.A. Ballet," Jekowsky said. "Reno is lucky to have a ballet company of that quality."
"I hope that especially in this day and age, this performance can take people away from their daily lives for a moment," Crews said of the enchanting performance. "There are still fairy tales."
Jekowsky echoed Crews sentiments.
"I hope people leave the world at the door and feel refreshed, entertained and inspired," he said. "Adults, wake up your young-at-heart feeling."
Tickets for "Cinderella" are $26 to $51 for adults and $21 to $41 for children under 12 and seniors. Tickets can be purchased at the Pioneer Center Box Office, at www.pioneercenter.com or by calling (877) 840-0457.


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"The bank branch is dead," Ed Crutchfield, chairman and CEO of banking giant First Union announced to his employees 14 years ago.
It was a controversial claim. But weekend traffic at First Union's bank branches was tapering off at the time. Crutchfield envisioned "teller-less" Saturdays and customers fending for themselves at the bulky ATMs or waiting until the workweek to process a transaction, according to an executive who attended the meeting.
(Read More: Cyber Threats Escalate as Banks Go Paperless)
The media dubbed Crutchfield a "revolutionary" at the time, but his dire call proved incorrect. The branches of First Union—through mergers with Wachovia, and then Wells Fargo—now live on (Saturday tellers, too) in the nation's largest banking footprint.
U.S. banks, altogether, operate nearly 100,000 bank branches, a number that rose sharply in the decade following Crutchfield's rein and now represents nine-times the number of retail locations operated by Starbucks.
But the revolution has started, with consumers using technology to carry out everyday banking tasks, America's banks are reconsidering the future of the branch.
(Read More: Bernanke Says Stress Tests Make Banks More Stable)
"We're thinking about 25 percent of U.S. branches are financially unaffordable," Kevin Travis, a branch banking consulting with Novantas, told CNBC in a phone interview.
Customers, on average, visit a branch 85 percent less than they did in 1995, noted Brett King, a banking advisor and author of "Branch Today, Gone Tomorrow."
"It's going south," King told CNBC. "And there's no reason to assume we'll see a resurgence of activity at the branch—the mobile app is the nail in the coffin."
Mobile banking adoption rates jumped to 32 percent in 2012, up sharply from 21 percent the previous year, according to consultant Bain & Company. Bain's study also said 90 percent of branch transactions are "routine" tasks that likely could migrate online—causing branch volume to fall as much as 10 percent each year.
"Within the next five to 10 years, really, the majority of actual day-to-day banking transactions people have been doing [at branches] over the last 100 years will be gone," Travis from Novantas said.
Mobile transactions are easier for customers and cheaper for banks to service, according to Diebold, a company which specializes in ATM and branch transaction services. In the company's 2010 investor presentation, it estimated a $4.25 per transaction expense at a bank branch versus only 8 cents through mobile banking. A 2013 Deloitte study found 40 percent of consumers were willing to pay more for the ease of mobile banking, too.
Even in the face of real estate and transaction costs, bank branches are a critical tool to attract new customers—if only serving as expensive billboards for the company in a choice-heavy world.
"It's going to be very difficult, to convince people…that you're a major presence in a market and you're here to serve them if you don't have any physical presence," said Jonathan Larsen, Citigroup's global head of retail banking.
(Read More: 'Post-Traumatic Economic Stress' to Keep QE Flowing: Pro)
Consumers rush to mobile apps for the simple transactions but still gravitate to the branch for the big-ticket transactions. Roughly 80 percent of all banking product sales are still closed at a branch, according to NCR, a transaction services company which advises many of the nation's largest banks.
JPMorgan Chase, for one, said 70 percent of its customers visit a branch once each quarter. For that reason, the bank said it would spend $1.2 billion—one of its biggest capital expenditure items in 2013—to open hundreds of new branches, all while investing in technology to shoulder the burden for routine transactions.
Case in point: Nearly all of the bank's 17,000 ATMs are deposit-friendly, and its app universe now allows mobile payments through Chase QuickPay – in addition to a real estate app resembling Zillow. But when a customer finds a home, they'll come to the branch for the mortgage: A higher-end, and therefore higher-return, advisory service.
A similar makeover may be required at, Wells Fargo. At 6,200 branches, Wells Fargo boasts the most storefronts of any financial institution. While it intends to grow, the "boring" bank is facing pressure to shift its strategy. Some 80 percent of transactions have migrated away from the branch and are now done on mobile phones, at the computer, or via ATMs, according to Jonathan Velline, the bank's executive vice president who runs their ATM and store strategy.
When endeavoring on any strategy shift, Velline has a thin tightrope to walk for this reason: its customers still expect the branch to be there, even if they only use once or twice every year.
"Seventy percent of our customers will visit Wells Fargo, talk to a teller, talk to a banker in any given six-month period," Velline told CNBC. "So our customers are still visiting us on a very regular basis."
Others, like Bank of America, are in retreat. The Charlotte-based bank is the nation's second-biggest, but bloated costs led it to shutter more than 250 branches just in the last year. Evidence of the stakes in the branch war, Bank of America's main hesitancy in selling the branches came from not wanting the real estate scooped up by a competitor.
(Read More: JPMorgan Works to Avert a Split of the Chief and Chairman Roles)
Then there's Citigroup—at only 1,000 branches in the U.S., Citi's footprint is child-sized compared to its aforementioned domestic rivals. To make up for its relative lack of real estate, it's refocusing on high-density, urban centers—not just in the U.S., but across the globe. In other words: The most expensive real estate on the planet.
The Hong Kong-based Larsen is currently overseeing a strategy refocusing on high-traffic, urban centers—away from the all-costs expansion of the days of yore.
"We're talking about the top 150 cities in the world," Citigroup's Larsen said in an interview with CNBC. "We're talking about New York. We're talking about London. We're talking about Tokyo. We're talking about Mumbai," These are really expensive places." (Larsen, however, would not comment about the fate of its much-discussed retail franchise in Mexico, which some analysts are pressuring the bank to sell or spin off.)
To recap: Wells Fargo wants convenience. JPMorgan wants technology. Bank of America wants to keep cutting costs. Citi wants global density. Got all that?
(Read More: Wells Fargo: Cyber Attack Disrupting Website)
While it may seem that the top money centers are diverging on specific strategy, all their top executives echo the same prediction for the future of the branch, perhaps put best by Larsen:
"We will probably end up over time with more outlets. It's just that they'll be of a different nature and, on average, smaller than the traditional outlets."
Long live the (new) bank branch.
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Correction: In an earlier version of the story, we had suggested that Chase Quick Pay is a separate app. That's, in fact, not the case.


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TORONTO, CANADA (January 31, 2014) – ONEnergy Inc. ("ONEnergy" or the "Corporation") (TSXV: OEG and OEG.A) today reported that C. Fraser Elliott has resigned as Chief Financial Officer effective February 1, 2014. Mr. Elliott's duties will be assumed by Ray de Ocampo, ONEnergy's current Vice President, Finance. Mr. de Ocampo, was Vice President, Finance of Sunwave Gas & Power Inc. ("Sunwave"), which was acquired by ONEnergy. Mr. de Ocampo is a Chartered Accountant and brings extensive experience in the industry.
Mr. Elliott was previously the Chief Financial Officer of ONEnergy's predecessor company Look Communications Inc. and assisted in the acquisition of Sunwave Gas & Power Inc. in July 2013. At that time Mr. Elliott became the Chief Financial Officer of ONEnergy, remaining until the transition was complete. Mr. Elliott will continue to assist ONEnergy in a consulting role through July 31, 2014.
"I would like to thank Mr. Elliott for his assistance in negotiating and completing the acquisition of Sunwave and in the creation of ONEnergy," said Mark Lewis, Chief Executive Officer of ONEnergy. "I wish him every success in the future as he pursues his other business activities."
The Corporation also announced it has appointed Spinnaker Capital Markets Inc. ("Spinnaker") as its capital markets and investor relations advisor.
The agreement is for a term of twelve months from February 3, 2014 to February 3, 2015 plus a 60 day notice period. Spinnaker's mandate will focus on developing and expanding the network of investors, analysts, and financial intermediaries who are interested in following the ONEnergy growth and investment story. The agreement also provides for a full range of services for a monthly fee of $7,000.
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Spinnaker is Toronto based advisory firm which provides TSX and TSX.V listed companies with an array of advisory services from investor relations to strategically positioning its portfolio of companies for maximum exposure amongst targeted research analysts, and retail and institutional investors. Spinnaker has long-standing relationships with Canadian, American and European investment banking, asset management and retail brokerage firms with focus on the small to mid capitalization market segment.
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The Federalist Society Online Debate Series
Hate Crimes Legislation
August 17, 2009
The Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009 (H.R. 1913) has been pending in Congress in roughly the same form since the 1990s. The bill passed the House on April 29, 2009 with a vote of 249 to 175. The Senate voted 63 to 28 to attach the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act to the annual defense-appropriations bill. In this installment of Originally Speaking, Gail Heriot, Brian Moulton, and Lara Schwartz discuss the merits of the legislation.
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Text of the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009 (H.R. 1913)
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Gail Heriot
The House passed it. And now the Senate has passed an only slightly different version–by attaching it to the Defense Authorization bill. Since President Obama has said he would sign it, it will take miracle to prevent this ill-considered piece of legislation from becoming law. But let me make one last effort before the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act (as the proposal is called in the Senate) becomes forever-enshrined in the federal code.
I'll start with an argument that is unique to the federal hate crimes bill: The double jeopardy issue.
All decent Americans were revolted by the murders of James Byrd in Texas and Matthew Shepard in Wyoming a decade ago. There ought to be a law, they thought, preferably a federal one. Of course, there is a law. Murder is illegal everywhere. Indeed, all but a tiny number of states have hate-crimes statutes too, so the conduct is often doubly prohibited. No one claims that states are not enforcing the law; to the contrary, state prosecutors swiftly obtained life sentences for Matthew Shepard's killers. James Byrd's are on death row. The proposal is a solution in search of a problem.
Its most significant effect will be to allow federal authorities to re-prosecute defendants who have already been acquitted in state courts. This is hardly cause to support the bill.
Americans learn as schoolchildren that the Constitution's double-jeopardy clause forbids the government from prosecuting them twice for the same offense. What they don't learn is the dual-sovereignty exception – that double-jeopardy protections do not apply to separate sovereign governments. An acquittal in state court therefore does not preclude a federal prosecution, and vice versa.
While there may be good reasons for the dual-sovereignty exception, it has always been troubling. Until fairly recently, however, the opportunities for mischief have been limited, since there were so few federal offenses on the books.
But with the explosive growth of the federal criminal code in the last few decades, this is no longer true. Now we are facing the very real possibility that federal prosecutors will get a second bite at the apple whenever they don't like the outcome of a state case, or they sense an opportunity to make headlines.
There is no better place to draw the line than with this politically charged proposal. Despite its title, it is not really a hate-crimes bill at all. It does not require that a defendant be inspired by hatred – only that he acted "because of" someone's actual or perceived race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability.
But consider: Rapists are seldom indifferent to the gender of their victims. A thief might target the disabled because they are less able to defend themselves. So these victims are chosen "because of" their gender or disability.
This is not just sloppy draftsmanship. DOJ officials wanted something susceptible to broad construction, and they have strenuously resisted efforts to tighten the bill's language. They apparently like the proposal's broad sweep.
Lara Schwartz
There has been a federal hate crimes law on the books for four decades, and this double jeopardy issue has never materialized -- nor have the opponents of the pending federal hate crimes bill called for its repeal.
Far from illustrating Ms. Heriot's point, the Byrd and Shepard murders demonstrate the need for this pending legislation. In the Byrd case, Texas authorities sought, and received, assistance from the DOJ, then under the leadership of Attorney General Janet Reno. Because the crime was motivated by race and took place on a road, the DOJ was able to determine that it had jurisdiction to assist the local authorities who requested this assistance. In contrast, the Laramie police were unable to secure federal help because of the nature of the crime, and by the time justice was done, the police had to furlough several law enforcement officers. The hate crimes bill that Ms. Heriot opposes would provide local law enforcement with the federal assistance that they need and that many have requested, which is why state and local law enforcement groups have put their official support behind the bill.
But the Shepard and Byrd murders are far from the only hate crimes that this country has seen. They caught the nation's attention, but according to the FBI, a hate crime is committed every day. Here at HRC, we have met with grieving families who have seen local authorities turn their backs on the victims, or seen the perpetrators walk away with token sentences. There are voiceless victims across this nation waiting for relief.
Gail Heriot
Sadly, there have been many cases in which federal authorities have re-prosecuted after a jury acquittal or other disposition–often under strong public pressure. Sometimes, of course, the defendant was guilty, causing some to view re-prosecution as a good thing: *The defendant finally got his comeuppance.* But in those cases, we should stop, take a deep breath and remember why we have a Bill of Rights. Our criminal justice system is designed to lean over backwards to make sure that innocent persons are not punished. The only way to do that is to allow some who are guilty to escape punishment. The routine availability of double prosecutions made possible by the combination of a bloated federal criminal code and the dual sovereignty rule is simply inconsistent with that tradition. Since we probably cannot get rid of the dual sovereignty rule, we need to oppose thoughtless expansion of federal criminal jurisdiction into areas that are already adequately covered by state authorities. That expansion makes double prosecution entirely too easy.
High-profile, controversial examples of re-prosecution include the Los Angeles police officers accused of using excessive force against Rodney King and the African American youth accused of murdering a Hasidic Jew in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn. The case of Vincent Chin is another. MALDEF's President and General Counsel is currently calling for the federal authorities to re-prosecute a case in Pennsylvania in which the two teenagers were convicted only of relatively minor crimes in the death of a Hispanic man.
These are just some of the famous cases. There are many more not-so-famous ones. In United States v. All Assets of G.P.S. Automotive Corp., 66 F.3d 483, 499 (2d Cir. 1995), Judge Calabresi noted that "there can be no doubt that all of these cases involved re-prosecutions in emotionally and politically charged contexts" and that it was "to avoid political pressures for the re-prosecution that the Double Jeopardy Clause was adopted." It "is especially troublesome," he stated, "that the dual sovereignty doctrine keeps the Double Jeopardy Clause from protecting defendants whose punishment, after an acquittal or an allegedly inadequate sentence, is the object of public attention and political concern."
The current proposal would increase the opportunity to such mischief exponentially, given the amazing breadth of its prohibitions (noted briefly in my previous post). Indeed, some of those who argue for the bill's passage do so precisely because it will allow for such re-prosecutions.
Ms. Schwartz argues that we've already got a federal hate crimes law, so apparently I should not mind vastly expanding it. Under the current law, adopted in 1969, federal authorities may bring a prosecution for a crime because it was motivated by the victim's "race, color, religion or national origin" only to protect the victim's right to engage in certain "federally protected activities." For example, if the defendant prevented a black woman from enrolling in a public school or from travelling by common carrier because she is black, he has committed a federal offense. For the record, this statutory provision does not purport to be and is not a hate crimes statute. Proof of hatred is not required; proof of a federally-protected activity is. It was enacted to enforce the rights recognized by the courts or enacted by Congress during the Civil Rights Era. What's important is that (1) this was a time when there was genuine reason to fear that state authorities might not enforce the law; (2) this statute was narrowly drafted to address that problem. That is not the case with the current proposal.
I've gone on too long, so the rest of my arguments will have to wait for another post. But I do want to respond to the suggestion that the concern by the proposal's opponents over double jeopardy may be opportunistic. Concern over the bloated federal code and the more than 3000 crimes now contained therein is not new or opportunistic. While the fault for unnecessarily expanding federal criminal jurisdiction must be shared by politicians on both the left and the right, conservative lawyers have taken a special interest in pointing out and trying to correct the problem. See Edwin Meese, III, Big Brother on the Beat: The Expanding Federalization of Crime, 1 Tex. Rev. L. & Pol. 1, 3 (1997). As for repeal of redundant and unnecessary provisions, you bet I'm for it. If you'll lend me a paring knife, I would be more than happy to get started. I can't imagine a better place to start than with this grandstanding proposal by Congress.
Lara Schwartz
Professor Heriot appears to be at least tolerant of expansions of federal criminal jurisdiction that are not "thoughtless" and address a real deficiency in the ability of state authorities to prosecute crimes. As I am ill-equipped to address the propriety of the host of other federal criminal statutes -- from provisions on dog-fighting and junk email to "deadbeat Dads" and church arson -- I'll speak instead to the need, limits and purpose of the current hate crime proposal.
First, as with the existing statute creating federal jurisdiction for certain bias-motivated offenses, the Matthew Shepard Act will lead to very few direct federal prosecutions. The Justice Department has brought fewer than 10 cases a year under the 1969 law and the proponents of the current bill, including DOJ, have emphasized that the vast majority of hate crime prosecutions will continue to be brought by state authorities. The Act requires the Attorney General to certify every prosecution, attesting to evidence of bias motivation and that the state authorities' lack of jurisdiction, desire for federal intervention, or a failure to address the federal government's strong interest in combating bias-motivated crime.
Undoubtedly there will be instances where the Justice Department will step in, but contrary to Professor Heriot's assertion in her first posting, the most significant effect will be to give state and local law enforcement agencies more tools to fully and fairly investigate and prosecute hate crimes. Federal jurisdiction opens the door to federal resources. Indeed, the murderers of Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. were brought to justice. But, as I noted in my last posting, the small-town law enforcement agencies in Albany County, Wyoming and Jasper, Texas had very different experiences with these complex cases. Federal resources -- from FBI investigators on the scene and analysis at the Bureau's forensics laboratory to technical assistance, or outright prosecution, by the local U.S. Attorney's office -- can and have made a critical difference. Local law enforcement should not be denied resources, or discouraged from conducting an investigation by cost, in cases that shatter the lives of entire communities.
Gail Heriot
Of course, some exercises of federal criminal jurisdiction are appropriate. But the crimes coming within this proposal would be near the bottom of my list of those appropriate for federal prosecution. It's not because they're not important. Murder, rape, and other serious crimes are always important. But the difference between state and federal criminal jurisdiction is not that the states handle the little stuff and the federal government handles the big stuff. Federal jurisdiction is supposed to extend only to categories of crime that have a real connection to an area federal responsibility. One should be able to point to a clause of the Constitution that authorizes the new prohibition without having to blush. And Congress should be especially careful to avoid extending jurisdiction into areas, like this one, for which the potential for prosecutorial abuse or misstep is high.
These are often cases that cause a public uproar–occasionally even hysteria. Indeed, it may be accurate to call hate crimes the most emotionally-charged criminal issue in the nation today. According to CCN's Kyra Phillips, "Thousands of people converg[ed] on the U.S. Justice Department" on November 16, 2007 "demanding more federal prosecutions of hate crimes."
Never lose sight of the fact that U.S. Attorneys and other DOJ officials are office holders. Often they aspire to higher office. They may be looking for votes–so they can become state legislators, State Attorneys General, members of the House of Representatives, Governors, etc. These aren't bad people; the vast majority are good people. But the desire to please the crowd is part of their make-up. Can anyone seriously argue that thousands of placard carrying protesters will have no effect on their judgment? Or that the opportunity to make the front-page of the nation's newspapers will have no effect? Think Duke Lacrosse case. Think Mike Nifong. It is worth noting that the rate of false allegations is fairly high in high-profile hate crimes investigations--at least outside of the tiny minority that involve a death. A number of college campuses have staged major protests against a hate crime incident only to find that the whole thng was a hoax. Now every time a high-profile crime comes along that can be squeezed into the definition of "hate crime" we'll have two prosecutors–one state and one federal–eager for action. If one is professional and conscientious and manages to avoid jumping to conclusions, the other might not be.
The federal law that all this reminds me of the most is the old Mann Act (or White Slavery Act). A century ago, Americans were in the throes of a panic over "white slavery" – then a common term for forced prostitution. They weren't entirely wrong either. Forced prostitution was a problem. Similarly, advocates of this proposal are not entirely wrong about hate crimes. True hate crimes do exist–i.e. crimes motivated by the hatred of a particular race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, etc. But in both cases the extent of the problem was greatly exaggerated. Decent people were frightened into believing that such crimes were much more common than they actually were by political activists interested in attracting attention to their cause.
After some melodramatic posturing over the issue, Congress passed the Mann Act, a broad criminal prohibition on transporting women across state lines for "immoral purposes." Note that, like the wording of the federal hate crimes statute (see my first post), the wording of the Mann Act was absurdly broad. Eventually, it became a tool for abuse. Among those charged with violations were Charlie Chaplin, Frank Lloyd Wright, boxing champion Jack Johnson, poet George Barker, and University of Chicago sociologist William I. Thomas, none of whom had been engaged in forcing women into prostitution. Johnson's "crime", for example, was to have a white girl friend. Similarly, I expect that the federal hate crimes statute will become the subject for abuse. It's just a matter of time.
Ms. Schwartz says that DOJ has brought fewer than 10 cases under the 1969 statute and that under the new statute the number of prosecutions will likely be small. Even if that's so, a lot of abuse can be packed into just a few cases. But we don't know if it's so. The 1969 statute was narrowly drawn: it would have been impossible to bring a large number of cases. That's precisely why advocates of the current proposal were so keen on passing the new proposal. The truth is we have no idea how many cases will be brought under this statute. And after it's passed will too late to be able to do anything about it.
Uh oh! I'm getting too long-winded again. I'll try to answer some of the other points raised by Ms. Schwartz in my next post, especially the point about this really being about providing technical assistance to local authorities. (Short version: Then why include the federal prohibitions at all? I doubt anyone would have taken the time to oppose mere technical assistance. The truth is that everyone knows that the new federal prohibitions were the centerpiece of this legislation and the technical assistance was just a way to buy support from local law enforcement. Arguing that the hate crimes bill should be passed because it contains some provisions for providing technical assistance to local law enforcement is like arguing the health care bill should be passed because it contains some nifty provisions that will provide new x-ray machines in V.A hospitals. There's a bit more to it than that ....)
Lara Schwartz
I'll summarize the professor's arguments as follows:
--These crimes aren't high on her priority list
--We cannot trust U.S. Attorneys with a law like this because they are actually political figures and will abuse it or use it to launch their careers to a higher level
--This reminds me [Professor Heriot] of an old law that bears absolutely no relationship to the hate crimes legislation but is sufficiently distasteful that we really need to throw it into the mix.
--There could have been some unspecified abuse of power involved in the 10 cases per year that the DOJ has brought under the existing civil rights statute.
We've come a long way from double jeopardy.
The fact of the matter is, hate crimes are high on the priority list of many law enforcement organizations and of most national civil rights organizations because we understand the serious impact that these crimes have on targeted communities.
Prosecutorial discretion is a fundamental part of our criminal justice system. No doubt, state and federal prosecutors have abused and misused their power on occasion, but that unfortunate circumstance can be attributed to personal failings or to inappropriate political influence more than to flaws in particular criminal statutes. There is simply no argument that hate crimes charges create unique or unprecedented temptations for abuse.
Passing hate crimes legislation will not put decent people in jeopardy of prosecution for living their personal lives freely, as the Mann Act did. This Act covers violent crimes resulting in death or bodily injury. We know from FBI data that these crimes are happening. They are primarily motivated by racial animus, though many victims are targeted because of their sexual orientation, gender identity, and religion. This is a real and documented problem. Comparing the plight of these victims and their families to the Johnson white girlfriend case is not only inapposite -- it's disgraceful.
Gail Heriot
Well...no...we haven't come a long way from double jeopardy. Maybe I should summarize my point more accurately that Ms. Schwartz has:
I'm willing to concede (if you want to call it that) that there are a few limited kinds of cases where both the state and federal governments have a strong interest in taking jurisdiction. Under these circumstances, the dual sovereignty exception to the Double Jeopardy Clause might be defensible: Neither the state nor the federal government should be able to "oust" the other from jurisdiction in such a case simply because it happened to undertake a prosecution first.
But nobody who cares about the rights of the accused should want a crime to give rise to the potential for both a state and a federal prosecution unless there is a very good reason for doing so. And there is no good reason for doing so here. There is no evidence that state authorities are falling down on the job in prosecuting hate crimes. To the contrary, they have received praise for their handling of hate crimes. Moreover, there are reasons to be especially wary of the possibility of dual prosecutions for hate crimes: The public response to these crimes is often highly politicized and prosecutors are thus likely to be tempted to make a name for themselves by prosecuting aggressively. The number of hate crimes that turn out to be hoaxes is uncommonly high–from the Duke lacrosse case to the alleged knifing of a Hispanic student at Northwestern University, to the alleged attack on a Muslim student at Arizona State University to the alleged rape of a Muslim student at Elmhurst College all the way back to the Tawana Brawley case. There are dozens of other high-profile examples. All in all, this is not an area of the law for which anyone should feel comfortable giving prosecutors two bites at the apple.
So why have both houses of Congress passed it? Modern legislation is all-too-often just theater. This proposal gave members of Congress the opportunity to grandstand. The various organizations that lobbied for it can tell their members that they've produced results, and engage in another round of fund raising. The problem is that this is real legislation with real consequences. We're stuck with a law that is drafted to be extraordinarily broad and that will include many crimes that very few people would consider hate crimes. (See my first post.)
I don't want to give the impression, however, that these are the only reasons to oppose the federal hate crimes statute. These are simply the issues that concern me most. All hate crimes statutes, even those that have been tightly drafted and adopted at the state level (and thus don't create double jeopardy problems) , raise significant issues:
* Why should James Byrd's or Matthew Shepard's killers be treated differently from Jeffrey Dahmer or Ted Kaczynski? Hate crimes can surely be horrible, but there are other crimes that are equally, if not more, horrible. Ms. Schwartz declares that hate crimes take a huge toll on the community. But so do other violent crimes.
* What happens if hate crimes statutes aren't enforced evenhandedly? Some crime statistics show that an African American is more likely to commit a racially-inspired murder of a white than the other way around. But many of these crimes don't get reported to the FBI under the Hate Crimes Statistics Act. Should all such attacks be punished as hate crimes? Or just those that fit the skinhead stereotype? Will it help or hurt the cause of racial harmony when people start taking score?
* Will hate crimes statutes really make women and minorities feel that the law takes their safety seriously? Or might it have just the opposite effect? Sooner or later, a high profile crime will occur that some citizens strongly believe ought to be prosecuted as a hate crime. Rightly or wrongly, the prosecution will decline to prosecute it as such or the jury will convict only on the underlying crime and not on the hate crime charge. As a result, those citizens will wind up feeling cheated–when they would have felt completely vindicated had no hate crime statute ever existed.
*What is gained by defining crimes in such a way that prosecutors must prove that the defendant's actions were motivated by racial or sexual animus? Is it enough to justify what is lost? When prosecutors are busy marshalling the extra evidence necessary for a hate crime prosecution, doesn't something have to give? Shouldn't our prosecutorial resources be deployed more efficiently?
Both threats were (and are) real. Forced prostitution went on in 1910, and indeed it continues today. In general, however, it was a crime that state authorities were capable of dealing with. Murder, rape and other extremely violent crimes motivated purely by victim's race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or disability are also all too real. But state authorities can deal with them. And in both cases the threat was (and is) exaggerated. In 1910, women who were hardly at risk at all were sometimes afraid to leave their homes, because they had been repeatedly told that they could be snatched off the street and forced into prostitution at any time. Similarly, irresponsible parties have been known to claim that the nation is facing an alarming level violent crimes motivated by group hatred when this is simply not the case.
In both cases, the actual statute was broadly worded to include crimes that were far more minor than members of the pubic had understood. With the Mann Act, some were arrested for crossing state lines with a married woman for the purpose of an adulterous liaison–not exactly forced prostitution. Similarly, the hate crimes proposal will cover some minor crimes that would have been misdemeanors under state law and not true hate crimes at all. Suppose someone hurls a group epithet in the course of an altercation. When people get mad they often hurl whatever insults are handy. If the fight gets even slightly physical, it could be a felony. The prosecution need only show the defendant intended to and did cause "bodily injury" (or that the defendant used a weapon and intended to cause bodily injury). But bodily injury is defined to include "physical pain" or "any other injury to the body, no matter how temporary." (S. 909.) A painful slap in the face will count.
Gail Heriot
Let me sum up: There are many reasons to oppose hate crimes statutes–even those adopted at the state level. Among those reasons are these (1) they simply duplicate traditional laws against violent crime; (2) they politicize prosecutorial decisions as various identity groups jockey to ensure that they get as much or more recognition than other groups; (3) they increase the difficulty of obtaining a conviction by adding to the number of elements that must be proven, hence increasing the chance of botched prosecutions, which could in turn lead to hard feelings in the community; (4) they give the impression that some crimes are taken more seriously than other equally-malicious and equally-harmful crimes; and (5) by increasing the punishment that would otherwise be available for a given crime, they essentially punish thought.
Regardless of how one comes out on the issue of state hate crimes, however, there are good reasons to reject federal hate crimes and in particular the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act. The broad federalization of crime gives rise to the danger of re-prosecution, since double jeopardy protections do not apply to separate sovereigns. Unless there is good reason to allow federal prosecutors to have that dangerous power–such as a systematic failure of state prosecutors to enforce the law–they should not have it. Yet the soon-to-be-law Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act does liberally confer it, since the statute is written in an absurdly broad way.
The next time you see small children out playing, keep this in mind: If the boys create a fort with "No Girls Allowed!" or vice versa, the uninvited gender may show up anyway. If that happens, let's hope things don't get physical. The boy who slaps a girl (or the girl who slaps a boy) in that situation would probably be committing a FELONY under federal law.


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